Patrick,
I can imagine a visual and/or sound poet presenting the least visible/audible trace still recognizable as a letter in a human alphabet as the most minimal poem possible.
Barry
On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:04:58 +0000, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Barry
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>eatc.
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>also looks pretty short had not seen this -
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>On 25/01/2020 03:50, Barry Alpert wrote:
>> Since Ezra Pound's formulation "Dichten=Condensare" took up residence in my brain shortly after I thought I understood it more than 50 years ago, I've never completed a poem shorter than 6 words. So I was in fact jealous when Doug showed us his 3 word poem. I didn't want to let this discussion end without presenting Aram Saroyan's still controversial 5 letter poem:
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>> eyeye
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>> within his 1966 book "works":
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>> http://cuneiformpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Works-Saroyan-Complete.pdf
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>> Barry
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>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:03:09 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Ah, I had not thought, Doug, of wind (pron. wined). You can understand, in
>>> these firey regions why my first inclination is to think downwind.
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>>> Bill
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>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 3:22 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> That’s fine, Bill. I don’t do this kind of thing a lot, but have seen
>>>> there try it, & these words come to mind with the middle word working as
>>>> verb & noun, & suggestive, at least to me. Patrick’s little joke is a fun
>>>> little game with it, & that’s fine too.
>>>>
>>>> I guess that sometimes one wants (I want) to see how much weight a few
>>>> words might have: Pound’s (& others’) dictum that poetry be as concentrated
>>>> as possible? Admittedly, the image of stars winding down may not be that
>>>> meaningful, but my SF mind liked it.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 11, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I have looked at this over a few days now, Doug and still I am not
>>>> finding
>>>>> whatever you and others appear to. The bald words expected to carry the
>>>>> weight of lines do not spark anything for me. Yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 4:27 am, Patrick McManus <
>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> do
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>>>>>> win
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>>>>>> star
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>>>>>> haha P
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>>>>>> On 10/01/2020 16:57, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>>>> Thanks Sheila, Patrick, Andrew.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As for that last, well…. But I am intrigued by what a few words can do
>>>>>> more of, sort of…
>>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:48 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Now, write a paragraph on each."
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>>>>>>>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 18:30, Patrick McManus <
>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> spaced out feel here -like it thanks P can see variations !!!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 08/01/2020 18:31, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> down
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>>>>>>>>>> wind
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>>>>>>>>>> stars
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>>>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>>>> Done in by creation itself.
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>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>>
>>>> Robert Kroetsch
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